Dawidowicz, Lucy C., The War against the Jews: 1933-1945, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1991.

This reissue edition provides a thorough history of the origins and development of the Holocaust. Dawidowicz offers a concise overview of Nazism and also delves into the daily lives of the Jews under growing anti-Semitism.

Gies, Miep, and Alison Leslie Gold, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family, Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Gies recalls what it was like to shelter the Frank family and the other Jews while living under the Nazi regime.

Lindwer, Willy, The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, Anchor, 1992.

Lindwer's work covers the final months of Anne's life from the time she and the others were taken from their attic hiding place to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.